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UNINA9910461211003321 |
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Woods Peiró Eva |
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Titolo |
White Gypsies [[electronic resource] ] : race and stardom in Spanish musicals / / Eva Woods Peiró |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4588-8 |
0-8166-7949-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Romanies in motion pictures |
Musical films - Spain - History and criticism |
Race in motion pictures |
Ethnicity in motion pictures |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures |
Romanies - Spain - Andalusia |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility -- Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s -- Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties -- Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore -- The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation -- The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer -- Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940's and '50's are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about race-especially, but not only, Gypsiness. Focusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain-with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of class, gender, and sexuality-Eva Woods Peiró explores how these popular films allowed |
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